Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
12/26/1889
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
Wladimir SokoloffWladimir SokolowVladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff
Vladimir Sokoloff
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (Russian: Владимир Александрович Соколов; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a character actor on stage and particularly in film.
Sokoloff was born in Moscow, Russia. He became an actor and assistant director with the Moscow Art Theatre before emigrating to Berlin in 1923. With the rise of Nazism, Sokoloff who was Jewish, moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937.
He appeared in a number of Broadway plays from 1937 to 1950. He also quickly found work in American films, playing characters o...
Known For
The Magnificent Seven
as Old Man
Alcatraz Island
as The Flying Dutchman
Don Quixote
as Gypsy King
Taras Bulba
as Stepan Kanevsky
Macao
as Kwan Sum Tang
Scarlet Street
as Pop LeJon
Katharina Knie
as Julius, der Clown
Mayerling
as Chief of Police
Paris Underground
as Undertaker
Juarez
as Camilo
Farewell
as The Baron
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Zacharkiewicz
Mister Flow
as Merlow
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
The Conspirators
as Miguel
Mr. Sardonicus
as Henryk Toleslawski
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Pepe the Janitor
Cimarron
as Jacob Krubeckoff
Blockade
as Basil
Back to Bataan
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello